SAP ERP Interview Preparation Guide

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SAP R/3 – It succeeds SAP R/2 and is market leader in ERP. R/3 stands for three tier architecture i.e. Presentation, Logic and Data tier. It has many modules like SD, FI, and HR etc which encompass almost all enterprise departments.
My SAP – It is a suite of SAP products which apart from SAP R/3 also includes SRM, PLM, CRM, SCM

At any given time for a particular client , you can work on 6 sessions at max.

☛ OLAP: OLAP stands for Online Analytical Processing it is a reporting tool configured to understand your database schema, dimensions and composition facts
☛ Data Mining: It is an analytic process to explore data in search of consistent patterns or systematic relationship between variables.

An ODS object serves to store debugged and consolidated transaction data on a document level. It defines a consolidated dataset from one or more info-sources. This data-set can be evaluated with a Bex query or Infoset query. The data of an ODS object can be updated with a delta update into InfoCubes or other ODS object in the same system or across systems. In contrast to multi-dimensional data storage with InfoCubes, the data in ODS object is stored in transparent, flat database tables.

While executing the SAP Payment Run the standard stages of SAP includes
☛ Entering of parameters: It includes entering company codes, vendor accounts, payment methods, etc.
☛ Proposal Scheduling: The system proposes list of invoices to be paid
☛ Payment booking: Booking of the actual payments into the ledger
☛ Printing of Payment forms: Printing of payment forms

Company in SAP is the highest organizational unit for which financial statements like profit and loss statements, balance sheets can be drawn according to the requirement of organizations. A single company contains one or many company codes. All the company codes in SAP must use same COA (chart of accounts) and fiscal year.

Business Warehouse uses a DATA WAREHOUSE and OLAP concepts for analyzing and storing data While the R/3 was intended for transaction processing. You can get the same analysis out of R/3, but it would be easier from a BW.

.sca stands for SAP component Archive. It is used to deploy the java components, patches and other java developments in the form of .sca,.sda,.war and .jar.

The common transport errors include
☛ 1. Return code 4: Imported with warnings, generation of program, columns or row missing
☛ 2. Return code 8: Imported with syntax error, program generation error, dictionary activation error, etc.
☛ 3. Return code 12: Indicates import cancelled due to object missing, object not active, etc.
☛ 4. Return code 18: Indicates import cancelled due to system down while import, user expired during import and insufficient roles or authorization